Theatrical Play, Coctel de Pastillas
- Fecha
- SundaySeptember 23, 2018
- Lugar
- Pueblo Viejo
“Cocktail of Pills”
The theatrical proposal is a collective creation of stories experienced by the cast members themselves regarding situations of institutional and psychiatric violence. In this case, the dynamic will not be that of a conventional play; it proposes a Forum Theatre experience, a technique emblematic of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, who proposed this type of theatre as an important tool for social change and in which the spectator is involved, making them a participant in a dramatic action regarding the oppressed-oppressor relationship. After the show, a debate will be opened, attempting to reflect and seek different alternatives to the acted situation of oppression.
The name of the show arises from a text published in the book “Five Years. Commotion in the Attic”, we will attempt to question the view of psychiatry as an all-powerful discourse in mental health, we believe that medication is fundamental in a treatment, but not the only thing, there are also other types of therapies, or alternatives that are within our reach and reinforce every cure, another type of pills, those pills are letters, music, theatre, art in this case, we will attempt to say that we are not objects that only need to be medicated, we are beings who feel, who speak and want to say something.
The theatrical proposal is a collective creation of stories experienced by the cast members themselves regarding situations of institutional and psychiatric violence. In this case, the dynamic will not be that of a conventional play; it proposes a Forum Theatre experience, a technique emblematic of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, who proposed this type of theatre as an important tool for social change and in which the spectator is involved, making them a participant in a dramatic action regarding the oppressed-oppressor relationship. After the show, a debate will be opened, attempting to reflect and seek different alternatives to the acted situation of oppression.
The name of the show arises from a text published in the book “Five Years. Commotion in the Attic”, we will attempt to question the view of psychiatry as an all-powerful discourse in mental health, we believe that medication is fundamental in a treatment, but not the only thing, there are also other types of therapies, or alternatives that are within our reach and reinforce every cure, another type of pills, those pills are letters, music, theatre, art in this case, we will attempt to say that we are not objects that only need to be medicated, we are beings who feel, who speak and want to say something.
Location
Pueblo Viejo, Concordia, Entre Ríos